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To have a great day at the Danube, in Budapest including pure rowing experience

The Budapest Cup Regatta is "THE" major rowing event in Budapest during the year and the only head type rowing event for eights in Hungary. It is the 3rd stage of the Capital Cup Regatta series. The Budapest Cup attracted over 320 boats and more than 2900 rowers from 15 countries to the capital of Hungary since its introduction to the Count Széchenyi István Memorial Regatta in 2011.

Today the Budapest Cup Regatta is the outstanding event in the Hungarian and Central European rowing calendar with big success among top, master and junior rowing teams from all over the region. The start of the rowing course is in the small Danube stream next to the Óbuda Island and leads the teams onto the Big Danube on the Buda side of the Margaret Island, into the well-known heart of Budapest.

Our aim is to give rowers a unique feeling of international rowing, where athletes from every level compete. We aim to utilize all the human and asset capital of the Hungarian rowing scene and connect it with the neighboring countries rowing communities.

More then 50% of the 600 participants came outside of Hungary

% foreign participants 2018

65 eights and 7 quads competed in 2018

% of eights from all boats

16 eights took part in the Capital Cup Regatta Series

% of teams racing in the Capital Cup

55% of all eights in Hungary were used - most boats twice

% of all eight class boats in Hungary

Our Sponsors

Organizing committee

Our team is working for you to have a great regatta experience in Budapest. We work with about 50 volunteers on the day of the regatta who make the regatta happen.

Gergely ORBÁN

Manager of the Budapest Cup Regatta since the beginning.
Ask him regarding the regatta, safety, boat rent, how to get there and basically everything!
Contact him +36304179020
gergely@budapestregatta.com

András DENK

András is the president of the honorable president Danubius NBC, the host club of the event and president of Budapest Rowing Association.
Life long professional who is dedicated to the cause of rowing. He is helping the project by managing various PR issues from sponsorship to lobbying.
Contact him:
+36309487233
denkandras40@gmail.com

The Budapest Cup has been such a beautiful experience!! I’d like to congratulate with your organizing team! You have been great to manage everything! Really perfect! From the feedback received, anyone has appreciated your great Event and I’m sure it will bring notoriety to your Regatta among all the Italian Master and not Master. We would like to thank the weather forecast too for the sunny days!!!! The Budapest Cup has been such a success!! So see you next year!!!

I would like to tell you really thanks for everything. I’m really happy to have seen more competitors than last years! The competition and the organization was as always top! That was my fourth time in Budapest. I will suggest it to all of my friends and hope to come back again and stay there!

Reserve your seats for the Gala dinner!

Latest news

A big thanks goes out to all of you guys for coming, participating and holding on despite the weather. See you in 2019! Results: Absolute times: Rep_01_Abs_Eredmények Absolute times with handycap: Rep_02_Abs_Eredmények_Handycap By boat class: Rep_03_Abs_Eredmények_Hajónem By categories: Rep_04_Kat_Eredmenyek photos: Bőr Benedek

Back in the past rowers wear a short and a tank, those have become later the unisuit. But Hungarian rowers could dress up such comfortably only from the 20th century. At the very beginning of the sport the rules were very strict. Short sleeves or legs were not allowed at all outside of the changing Read more about The history of the unisuit[…]

The Organizing Committee of the Budapest Cup Regatta informs all participants about the contingencies to be implemented in case of adverse weather conditions. The complete program is moved earlier with one hour. The first division starts at 9:00am. Updated time schedule will be sent tonight Weather forecast for 17 March, Saturday (as of 13:00 14 March): North-East Read more about Official Communication N#1[…]

The main organizer, Danubius Rowing Club has been cooperating with the Hungarian Down Foundation, that helps families with Down syndrome people with counselling, activities, and all sorts of support, for a decade now. You may as well support the foundation by purchasing this charity T-shirt. In the framework of the cooperation we are aiming to provide racing Read more about Cooperation with the Hungarian Down Foundation[…]

We already gave you the numbers after the registration closed on the 17th of February, and now we present the preliminary entry list. The final version is due on the week of the regatta, in the meantime check yourself out here: 0Előzetes nevezési lista – Preliminary startlist* * Same color rows apply for the same Read more about Check out the preliminary entry list[…]

Let’s have a big party as usual after the regatta. Join us for the afterparty at Ötkert (Zrínyi str. 4., Budapest, 1051) Price: 1000 HUF/person Time and date: March 17, 2018, 20:00- Book tickets: info@budapestcupregatta.com Get the tickets at the rowingshop.eu tent at the regatta.

Let us celebrate together the start of the new rowing season! Exclusive gala dinner with view to the Danube – all you can eat – last year more than 120 confirmed participants Come and join us for the 8th Budapest Cup Regatta Gala dinner, reserve your seats now! Reservation: zitavimi@gmail.com Price: 42 EUR Time and Read more about Reserve your seats for the gala dinner![…]

Yesterday was the deadline for entries for this year’s Budapest Cup Regatta. We received 76 registrations and some entries are still under process so when they are done the number of participating crews will exceed that of last year’s, hurray! More than half of the registrations came for male crews, one third is for ladies Read more about 76 registrations so far for this year’s Budapest Cup Regatta[…]